Rosemary & Aloe Herbs (2025)

Herbal Apothecary & Food Forest Garden
Ayurvedic Earth Medicine School
Kids Budding Herbalist program
Nicole Romero, Clinical Herbalist, Ayurvedic Holistic Health Pract.

10/04/2025

Katuk & Tulsi pesto - just one of the Buddha Bowl toppings we will be learning and trying in the second class of the Ayurvedic Earth Medicine School.

In Ayurveda, a balanced meal contains the six rasas or tastes. Sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter and astringent.

In this class we will learn what (tropical, subtropical and temperate) plants make up these tastes for a balanced Buddha Bowl meal for optimal digestion and assimilation according to your dosha. It’s really simple once you get the hang of it! We will learn various meals according to each dosha for breakfast, lunch and dinner. While creating your own balancing meal from a homemade food bar.

Food becomes a sacred exchange with nature, spirit, the elements and the Self.

Katuk & Tulsi Pesto🌿

Earthy, sweet, slightly peppery, and rich in prana

Ingredients:🌿

🌿1 cup fresh Katuk leaves (washed and stems removed)
½ cup fresh Tulsi (Holy Basil) leaves (Rama or Krishna variety)
¼ cup toasted almonds, tropical almonds or pumpkin seeds
2–3 tbsp cold-pressed coconut oil or olive oil (warming or cooling option)
1 tbsp fresh lime (sour, to balance Kapha and enhance digestion)
1 small clove garlic (optional – pungent)
½ inch piece fresh ginger, grated (optional – warming)
¼ tsp sea salt
Optional: 1 tsp nutritional yeast (for a cheesy flavor) or Parmesan

Directions:
Prep the greens: Wash katuk and tulsi leaves and pat dry. Remove tough stems. I also blanch my katuk

Toast the nuts/seeds: Lightly toast tropical almond nuts in a dry skillet until fragrant (if using).

Blend: Add all ingredients to a food processor or high-speed blender. Pulse until chunky-smooth, scraping down sides.

Ayurvedic Notes:
Dosha benefits:
Kapha: The pungent, astringent and bitter tones balance excess moisture and heaviness.
Pitta: Cooling oil and tulsi help reduce heat; use less garlic/ginger.
Vata: Add a bit more oil and warming spices for grounding. Can add Parmesan

Ways to Use:
As a dip with cassava chips or veggie sticks
Tossed with yucca noodles or pasta
Spread on flatbreads or dosha-friendly wraps
Dolloped on top of Buddha bowls
Stirred into warm grains like millet or quinoa
Mix with beans or gluten free pasta

07/04/2025

The first day of the Ayurvedic Earth Medicine School was truly inspiring. Thank you to all who attended. Your energy and enthusiasm for Ayurveda and Earth Medicine is what makes these teachings continue to grow strong as more people radiate the wisdom. I am throughly excited for our next one. Stay tuned for more details soon. 🌺💗🌺

Here, students are working on their own personal dosha to see how each dosha (Ayurvedic Unique Constitution) and each element, corresponds with a different rasa or taste.

Next class we dive deeper into the six rasas (sweet, salty, sour, astringent, bitter and pungent). We are going to create a Buddha bowl with the six tastes according to our dosha (if your new to the class I will help you create a bowl based on the season or your dosha).

We will learn about various herbs and plants that grow here in Florida, their dosha and rasa.

As well as common plants you can buy at the grocery store.

You will learn about seasonal eating, food combining these rasas and how to correlate the rasas with various herbal actions. For example heating, pungent herbs are good as stimulants and as circulators.

Throughout this program you will draw patterns connecting the energies and elements with various plants for vibrant wellness and holistic living according to nature’s rhythms.

A truly one of a kind program.

Taking all 12 classes (1 class a month) at the end of the year you will receive the Ayurvedic Earth Medicine - Budding Herbalist certification.

Along with each class, there will be two hours of home work (reading and underlining the pages we went over in the class binder) and answering various questions.

By the end of the year this will give you 60 hours of herbal training.

If you have any questions, please feel free to dm me.

Date for May class coming soon. 🌺❤️🌺❤️

06/04/2025

Excited for the first day of the Ayurvedic Earth Medicine School, so much more than just an herbal school. 🌀🌘🔥💦🌱

03/04/2025

🌺Human beings are a replica of the entire universe. The microcosm mirroring the macrocosm, holding both spirit and nature.

🌺The body is just like the outside world. It is a fine-tuned instrument that contains the five elements that make up the planet and universe.

🌺Every trace of our environment, every mineral can be found in our bones, sweat and tears. The pulse that created the universe, dirt, rocks, plants, rivers, oceans and sunlight is the same pulse that is found within our body.

🌺This is the gift of Ayurveda, ancient teachings based on the elements and gifted to humanity to understand how we are related. We are made from Nature, from stardust and mud, a gift from the Great Creator. When we are in balance with Nature, life radiates, wisdom is felt all around, and the deeper connection with the Great Creator is felt within.

⭐️"As above, so below; as within, so without.”

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